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Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love [Vinyl New]

Label: JAGJAGUWAR
Format: LP
Release Date: 26 May 2015

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Vinyl LP pressing of this 2015 release. The progression of Unknown Mortal Orchestra could work as science fiction-alien entity crashes to earth, progressively exhibits human emotions to fascinated onlookers. Judging from Multi-Love, UMO is threatening to do away with the six-string wizardry that often distinguished them but also occasionally bogged down their otherwise taut, psych-funk songwriting. And so there's less than ever standing between the listener and what lay at the core of previous standouts "How Can U Luv Me" and "Swim and Sleep (Like a Shark)"-a very, very bummed guy and his record collection. On Multi-Love, Nielson sings of the titular entity crashing his heart and trashing it like a hotel room-a common rock 'n' roll image that hasn't quite been used this way, and those are the most powerful ones. Whatever Multi-Love might be, they had all the fun knowing Nielson would be responsible for paying the bill. This metaphor fits in a musical sense as well: as a melodicist and an arranger, Nielson is constantly trying to fit odd, cracked parts back together, and this is his most complex display of craftsmanship yet, keeping a falsetto and newfound synth fetish in line with brisk breakbeats, while doing a damage assessment of his broken heart-revealing that UMO have always been a funk band in both senses of the word.